Although this spiral galaxy appears unremarkable from afar, NGC 7456 is bursting with newborn stars and glowing gas, ...

Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA's understanding of space weather by measuring radiation ...

NASA's IMAP mission aims to map the heliosphere, study solar wind, and improve space weather forecasting for Earth's ...

NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX ...

Startup's radiation shield tech could bring high-performance AI chips to space Air Force backs startup's radiation-shield ...

NASA launched the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...

The observatory’s work is far from trivial. It captures gamma-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical data in real time, studying black holes, supernovae, neutron stars, and other cosmic phenomena.

Earth's invisible magnetic field acts as a vital shield, protecting life from dangerous cosmic radiation and solar particles.

Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, ...